What this guide is for
Your organization launches a PPP program that turns Karak’s mines, highways, heritage and farms into public-private partnerships (PPPs) it can prepare, bid for, build, finance or operate, starting with the governorate it already works in.
The case
Karak’s organizations can build the place they work in
Karak has grown around a few large industrial works and its castle, and most of the governorate’s organizations have watched the big decisions from the outside. The projects of the next fifty years will be prepared, built and run by many organizations at once, and the ones that start their own programs now will own a share of the governorate they work in. This guide invites organizations in Karak to launch a PPP program, starting with the projects at home.
The guide
Bring Karak into the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity
Your organization opens a dedicated PPP program, a team and a set of offers that take part in Karak’s mining, industry, transport, water, energy, tourism and urban projects, starting with its place in Jordan’s $86 billion of projects.
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A Karak PPP team
A dedicated team that knows how PPPs are prepared, procured and financed follows every project in Karak from the first market sounding and decides early where the organization can prepare, bid, build, finance or operate.
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A place in the governorate’s consortia
Municipalities, industrial suppliers, contractors, farms, hotels and local investors join the consortia that bid for Karak’s projects, bringing the land, the operating knowledge and the local workforce that international partners need.
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Projects along the highways and the Ghor
The potash works at Ghor Al Safi, the cement plants at Qatraneh, the Desert Highway and the King’s Highway all depend on water, power, roads and housing. An organization that understands those links can shape projects that serve several of them at once.
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Karak-led direct proposals
Jordan’s PPP Law No. 19 of 2023 accepts direct private proposals under Article 15. An organization in Karak can design a project around a need it sees every day, such as a truck stop, a solar pumping plant, a castle visitor center or a cold store for Ghor farms, and propose it with partners who finance and build it.
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Pilots as small-scale PPPs
PPP Regulation No. 9 of 2024 defines small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million, which can be bundled into one feasibility report and one tender. A small concession in Karak gives the organization a live asset, a reference and a place in the larger projects that follow.
Why organizations in Karak
Karak’s organizations can build the place they work in
Karak holds Karak Castle, the potash works on the southern Dead Sea, the cement plants at Qatraneh and Mutah University. Each new project depends on the organizations already working there, and each one can make them partners in what is built.
Where organizations in Karak fit in a PPP
- Preparation
- Local data, land and needs that shape projects the governorate can use and investors can finance.
- Tender
- Places in consortia beside international developers, contractors and operators.
- Financial close
- Equity, land contributions and local investors beside the banks and funds.
- Operation
- Operators, service firms and a workforce that run the asset in Karak for decades.
- Exit
- Stakes that local and regional investors can buy, including tokenized notes.
One governorate, many linked projects
Mineral works and cement plants, the Desert Highway and the King’s Highway, water and power networks, the farms of the Ghor, the castle and the old town and the campus at Mutah all depend on each other in Karak. A project in one of them changes the demand for the others, which gives organizations that see the whole governorate an advantage in shaping the next one.
Why a program, and why now
The consortia for Jordan’s next projects are forming now. A program gives an organization in Karak a team, a pipeline and the partners to act on it, and the organizations that join the first projects will help set the standards the rest of the governorate follows.
Futureproofing
Futureproof Organizations in Karak for the infrastructure singularity
This free 17-page guide shows how, with small PPPs in parallel, PPP research labs, artificial intelligence, robotics, tokenization and six first steps.
Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion pipeline to start with
The projects that reach Karak will need local partners to prepare, build and run them. An organization that delivers one PPP in Karak can carry the same team to Aqaba and to the next project across Jordan.
- $86B
- of PPP and infrastructure projects in development in Jordan
- $46B
- of them anchored in Aqaba
Artificial intelligence
AI fits Karak’s heaviest systems first. It can plan mineral and cement haulage, forecast truck flows on the Desert Highway and the King’s Highway, balance water and power demand for industry and farms and guide visitors at the castle. An organization in Karak can bring those tools into every concession it joins and use the same data to find the next project worth proposing.
Robotics
Mines, quarries and cement plants are where robots already work at scale. Autonomous haul trucks, drones and inspection robots can raise the output of Karak’s industrial sites and keep its pipes, roads and power lines in shape, and the organizations that run them will need Jordanian technicians trained in Karak to operate and maintain them.
Tokenization
Tokenization lets the people and companies of Karak own a share of the projects around them. An organization can offer tokenized stakes in a solar plant, a water network or a heritage hotel to local and regional investors, pay them from the asset’s own revenue and keep the governorate’s savings working at home.
Small PPPs and research labs
Karak is small enough to test a new idea quickly and varied enough to prove it. An organization in Karak can host a PPP research lab, run pilots on its own land and assets and publish every result, so the pilots that work in Karak become the models for the rest of Jordan.
Unsolicited proposals
A direct proposal lets an organization in Karak bring a project built around a need it knows better than anyone, from a truck stop on the Desert Highway to a visitor service at the castle. It can propose the project as its own, protect the ideas behind it and keep the right to match the best offer at tender.
The program
How the program could work
The program can sit inside the organization’s strategy or business development team, with a PPP lead at its center and offers built from what the organization already owns and runs in Karak.
- PPP team
- A small team of business, technical, legal and finance people that covers every PPP in Karak from the first market sounding.
- Pipeline
- A map of Karak’s projects by sector and stage, and the ones that fit the organization’s land, assets and skills.
- Consortia
- Partnerships with developers, contractors, operators and banks bidding for Karak’s projects.
- Local supply
- Services, staff, land and equipment the organization can offer every concession in the governorate.
- Direct proposals
- Projects proposed under Article 15 around needs the organization sees in Karak every day.
- Pilots
- Small-scale PPPs below $14.1 million that build a track record on live assets in Karak.
- Partners
- Agreements with the governorate’s public bodies, municipalities, industries, investors and other organizations in Karak.
What the organization gains
The organization gains contracts and revenue that last as long as the concessions it joins, a bigger role in the governorate it already works in and a reference it can carry to every other project in Jordan.
It also gains a voice in how Karak grows. The organizations that help prepare, build and run the governorate’s first AI, robotics and tokenized PPPs will shape its industry, its highways and its heritage for the next fifty years.
Next steps
How an organization in Karak can start
Any organization in Karak can take this guide forward. The first steps use the land, assets, people and partners the organization already has.
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Mandate
Board or management approval for a Karak PPP program, with its sectors, its role and its first-year goals.
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Team
A named program lead, with business, technical, legal and finance people drawn from the organization’s existing teams.
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Pipeline
A map of Karak’s share of Jordan’s $86 billion by sector and stage, and early meetings with the authorities and developers behind them.
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Offer
The land, assets, services and local workforce the organization can bring to a consortium, packaged into one offer.
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Partners
Developers, contractors, operators, banks and other organizations in Karak ready to bid together.
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Pilot
A first consortium bid, small concession or direct proposal in Karak, taken from idea to submission.
Karak has the minerals, the highways, the castle and the land, and Jordan has a law that lets an organization propose its own. A PPP program puts your organization at the center of how the superintelligent infrastructure future arrives in Karak.
The full document
Inside this guide
Seventeen pages and thirteen chapters, from the case for a PPP program to the first steps, written for organizations in Karak.
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01Introduction
Why a century of infrastructure needs rebuilding, and the $500 trillion it will take.
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02The guide
Bring Karak into the $500 trillion PPP infrastructure opportunity
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03Jordan and Aqaba
An $86 billion pipeline to start with
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04Artificial intelligence
How AI designs, structures and runs PPP projects, and what it means for organizations in Karak.
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05Robotics
How robots build infrastructure and keep it running, and what that means for organizations in Karak.
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06Tokenization
How tokenization funds projects from their own revenue, and the role it opens for organizations in Karak.
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07Small PPPs in parallel
Why many small PPPs teach a country faster than a few large ones.
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08PPP research labs
A lab in each sector, running ten small PPP projects a year.
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09Unsolicited proposals
How Jordan’s PPP law accepts direct proposals from private companies.
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10Why organizations in Karak
Karak’s organizations can build the place they work in
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11The program
The program can sit inside the organization’s strategy or business development team, with a PPP lead at its center and offers built from what the organization already owns and runs in Karak.
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12About
About Jordan PPP and what it offers.
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13Next steps
How an organization in Karak can start: six first steps.
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Questions
Questions about the guide for Organizations in Karak
- What does the guide for Organizations in Karak propose?
- Your organization launches a PPP program that turns Karak’s mines, highways, heritage and farms into public-private partnerships (PPPs) it can prepare, bid for, build, finance or operate, starting with the governorate it already works in.
- Why should organizations in Karak launch a PPP program?
- Karak’s organizations can build the place they work in. Karak holds Karak Castle, the potash works on the southern Dead Sea, the cement plants at Qatraneh and Mutah University. Each new project depends on the organizations already working there, and each one can make them partners in what is built.
- Which PPP projects can organizations in Karak take part in?
- Jordan has about $86 billion of PPP and infrastructure projects in development, $46 billion of them anchored in Aqaba. The projects that reach Karak will need local partners to prepare, build and run them. An organization that delivers one PPP in Karak can carry the same team to Aqaba and to the next project across Jordan.
- How can organizations in Karak start a PPP program?
- Any organization in Karak can take this guide forward. The first steps use the land, assets, people and partners the organization already has. The guide sets out six first steps: mandate, team, pipeline, offer, partners and pilot.
- What does a PPP program give organizations in Karak?
- The organization gains contracts and revenue that last as long as the concessions it joins, a bigger role in the governorate it already works in and a reference it can carry to every other project in Jordan.
- Is the guide for Organizations in Karak free?
- Yes. It is free to read on this page and free to download as a 17-page PDF, with the case for a PPP program, Jordan’s pipeline, the role of AI, robotics and tokenization, the program and six first steps.
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